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FROM SUNDAY'S EDITION
The following, matter on thin page - ap
peared in ■ undny'e edition. The reason for this
re-publirntlon it- because our regular mail rate of
mbMTipt ion don not include the nnday issue,
and comparatively few in the country care to pay
extra for tin • B.uiday edition, which lies in the
St. Paul postoflice and goes out in the Mine mail
with the Monday paper. The more important
news and other miscellaneous information, in
therefore, published on Monday for the benefit
of country subscribers who do not get the Sun
day Glouk.
SATURDAY'S MARKETS.
The Unfavorable Weather Having a
Depressing: Effect Both on Quota
tions and the Spirits ->"
the Speculators. .
The Enormous Visible Supply, increasing
Thousands of Bushels Every Day.
a Steady Check to Any Ad
vance in Wheat
___^_^^^^
Trading In Corn, Oats and Provisions
Very Light and Prices Almost Un
changed— Xo Disposition to
Trade in Shares.
CHICAGO.
[Special Teletram to the Globe. I
Chicago, Dec. 6. — The grain markets to
day were generally heavy, and lower prices
were the rule on all leading options. Wheat
was especially weak, the supporting features
teeming to be entirely lacking, and the bears
made the most of the situation, pounding
the market mercilessly. The result was a
■harp decline of from %@l%c, and a close
at the lowest figures of the day. Corn
shared in the heaviness of wheat, but only
to a slight degree In the decline, near options
being but %c lower at the close and May un
changed. Oats joined the downward proces
sion, and closed %c lower for December, and
%c for May, while provisions varied the mo
notony by remaining fairly steady, pork
Closing 2^C higher for January, lard 5c
higher all around, and ribs 2%c higher.
Closing quotations were: January wheat,
7:2;\c, year corn, 3G%c, May oats, 27)^c,
January pork, $11.42K» January lard, $6.80,
January ribs, $5.75.
There was not much activity in the wheat
pit, and the outlook for believers in higher
prices was decidedly gloomy. All the in
fluences seem adverse, Including receipts for
the week much larger than any week for
several years past, while in other points th«
deliveries were hoavy, and the prospect is
good for a 2,000,000 bushel increase in next
Wednesday's .statement. New York was
weakat%@lc decline, and cables reported
Liverpool quiet but steady and Mark Lane
the same, with a decline of 6 pence per quar
ter for red winter off coast. On top of all
this was the gloomy weather, which was bad
enough in itself to make everybody take the
most despondent views possible. January
opened '.c lower at 73c, went up to yester
day's close and then off with slight fluctua
tions %c, closing at the lowest point of the
daj, 73% c. There were some outside orders
for January at 73c and some for May at 80c,
but they were not numerous enough to check
the decline materially. The latter option
opened at 80c, and went up %c, but declined
pretty steadily from that point to a close of
79%.
C. A. King «fc Co., of Toledo, says: "'The
present exportable surplus of wheat in this
country, out of a total crop of 510,000,000
bushels, is over 50,000,000 bushels larger
than the probable export requirements for
the remainder of the present crop year, and
over 30,000,000 larger than the entire import
•wants of the United Kingdom during the
balance of this crop year. The depression in
business will affect any increase in consump
tion, which would otherwise occur from the
low price. If it does not, the reserves from
the previous crop of 40,000,000 undoubtedly
would. Present prices arc exceptionally low,
and may revive speculation, but there is
plenty of wheat, and only disaster to the
growing crop here or war abroad is liable to
cause any decided permanent advance."
Optional trading in corn to-day was very
light outside of the movement in year, and
the range of fluctuation in that was covered
by :; c. Liverpool was strong on corn and
half a penny per cental higher, and our re
ceipts were only 165 cars, with ten grading
No. 8, but for all that persons cannot be
found who are willing to put up the price of
com in the face of the big crop. The pres
ent scarcity is caused by a tussle between
producers, shippers and speculators, with
high freight* standing in the foreground us
an obstacle to a free movement. But the
corn is in existence, and people know it, and
they will not bid up the market or take on
any more than is wanted for immediate uses,
and so the speculative corn trade on 'change
is nearly at a standstill for the want of
healthy and normal conditions. Year opened
at MXc, yesterday's last figures,
and, under purchase by Sam Adams, went
up to 37'^c, but declined %C after that sup
port had been withdrawn, and closed %c
lower than on yesterday, at 30; l 4 c. January
opened at He, declined to 34% c, and closed
at M%Ci while May fluctuated %c either way
from 37J4C, opening and closing at that
figure.
"This weather is bad." said Jim Love,
"but it will probably bo followed by a sharp
freeze, and corn will grade much better after
that. Corn has started to go down, and it is
good for 11 decline of 5c a bushel. Freight
rates on the Union Pacific have been reduced
2>£c, and corn on track is higher than it was
a few weeks ago. Here's an advance of
nearly 7c. Two weeks ago we were getting
800 cars of corn a day. This 7c more a
bushel will start a corn movement that will
result in receipts of 1,000 cars of corn a day
within the next fortnight."
C. E. Culver, as receiver, said that he ex
pected 1,500 cars of corn to arrive daily about
the last of December.
Oats were fairly active, but the feeling was
heavy aud prices sought a lower level. El
dridge, Jones, Catlin and Press were selling
mostly on short account. The sales of Jones
amounted to 500,000. Press says May oats
are good for a decline of 3c. December
opened 34c lower, at 24c, went up \c, and
then down to 23}£c, closing at 23% c. May
opened %c lower, at 27% c, and sold down
to a close of 27>£c.
Provisions attracted less attention, but the
price whs firmly sustained by the Packing
company, who appear to be sure of their
position. Pork opened unchanged, sold up
7}£c.-thcn off sc, closing at $11.42}£,0r 2>£c
above yesterday. Lard opened 2>£c better
for January, 6old up 10c, and closed 5c
higher than yesterday at $6.80. Ribs im
proved 2^c, closing at $5.75 for January
and §5.82>£ for February.
The stock yards business was active con
sidering the bad weather and the last day of
the week. Receipts of cattle were fair,mainly
made up of low grade Texas that sold at very
low figures. Natives were scarce and a shade
Mghcr.
Receipts of hogs were rather above the
iverage for Saturday. The market opened
rather weak and • s@loc lower, but closed
"inn, with the loss of the morning regained.
Receipts of cattle for the week were about
44,000 and of hogs 276,000, and for the com
'.nsr week the estimates are from 200,000 to
230,000.
CHICAGO FINANCIAL.
[Special Telejrram to the Globe. |
Chicago, Dec. (i — General business at the
banks was very quiet, owing partially to the
extremely unfavorable weather. New York
exchange was 25 cents discount to par, with
a large outside demand. Orders for cur
rency shipments were fair and receipts the
same. Sterling exchange was $4.62@4.56. I
Government bonds were unchanged. Trade
in local bonds and storks was quiet. Bank
clearings were 18,571,300 against $3,427,000
yesterday, and for the week $54,019,998
against $04,524,099 for the corresponding
week of last year.
>*EW YORK.
| Special Telegram to the Globe. I
New Yokk, Dec. 6. — The stock market
opened weak, all of the active stocks register
ing a decline of from }<<' V P 6l " cent. The
principal bear influence was the announce
ment that the Reading refused to stand with
the coal combination and restrict produc
tion in order to keep prices up by limiting
the amount of production. The coal combi
nation has heretofore been able to keep the
price steady, while everything else has de
clined one-third. The tone of the market
was weak, and it was rumored that the bull
syndicate of room traders. find
ing the public unwilling to bay
at present prices, have begun selling
to each other. Mr. White was a large seller
of Lackawanna. Mr. Elliott and Mr. Bell
forced the fight in St. Paul, and Drezel,
Morgan & Co. were very bullish. They are j
credited with having been the bankers in the j
recent rise of the New York Central, their ;
object being to sell the new issue of deben
ture bonds. It is announced, on what is
deemed good authority, that Lake Shore will
pass its next dividend, and bets were offered
to-day that the stock would sell down ten
points before it sold up five points. j
New York Central officials tell their
friends that the road earned at the
rate of 1% per cent, on its stock
for the quarter ending Fov. 30. It is re
ported that the company has succeeded in
borrowing $3,000,000 in London. D. O.
Mills says the company Las borrowed money
for current expenses, but no large amount |
has been borrowed recently, and he is not ;
aware that the company has need to borrow.
Mr. Mills denied that he ever considered the
matter of lending the company $2,000,000
if they raised $3,000,000 elsewhere. A
marked advance was the characteristic of
New York Central and Xake Shore, while
the grangers and coal stocks were decidedly
weak. The bull influence in New York
Central was the announcement of a guaranty
that its next quarterly dividend would be I} 4
per cent. Toward the middle the market
improved, and though there was not much
activity prices were well sustained. -la
ware A: Hudson went down with Delaware &
Lackawauna, and it was reported that the
clique in the latter had disbanded. St. Paul
preferred dropped to 107 and Illinois Central
sold at 120. Manhattan elevated was active
and higher. The light weight* were entirely
neglected. About 2 o'clock Delaware ■
Laekuwannu broke below IN, and carried
the balance with it. The market was ex
ceedingly dull at the finish, with but little
disposition shown to operate by either side.
S. Jl. it.,,,,1 <£- Co.
S. W. Wood & Co., in their letter to-night,
say: The markets to-day have been dull and
drooping, but we look for unsettled and
stormy weather, and with it a natural failing
oil of receipts, and a natural upturn In wheat
in consequence. Besides, we learn from
the same source from which we obtained In
formation of the corn corner, that several
strong parties are about to take hold of wheat
and put up the Chicago market I to 10c per
bushel. We urge our customers to buy now
while it Is cheap.
Madison Items.
[Special Teleirram to MM Globe. 1
Madison, Wis., Dec 0. — A large proces
sion of Democrats, headed by three brass
bands, met A. J. Roach, a Republican of
Waterloo. Wis., at the Northwestern, who
had trundled a wheelbarrow from Water
loo, twenty miles from here, in payment of a
bet be lost on Blainc.
Oscar Schlotthauer, a bar tender, received
a scalp wound in the head this morning from
a pistol which C. Sylvester was examining in
his shop, and which was accidentally dis
charged.
Charles Been has ascertained that the walls
of Burrows opera house have become unsafe
from water from a bathing establishment un
der it. Ike "Beggar Student" was to ex
hibit there to-night and the Barlow & Wil
son minstrels Monday night. Both compa
nies will seek another hall. The building
will be thoroughly repaired, and will be ren
dered safe for Fay Templeton, who plays
here next week.
Brighton Beach Races-
New York, Dec, 6. — The interest of the
day was centered in the last race, when Mc-
Laughlin on King Lion bet Fitzpatrick, who
rode Herbert, $100 even on the result be*
tween them. The jockeys pushed their
horses for all they were worth. Fitzpatriek
bad every penny he could raise on the race.
He probably won $2,000.
First race for beaten horses, six furlongs,
Horelne won by three lengths, Gypscy second
Skylark third; time, I:22>£-*. " " 3
Second race, selling allowances, mile —
Frank E. won, Centennial second, Sister
third; time. 1:48 J£.
Third race, handicap, all ages, mile and a
furlong — Halcdon won, Woodflower second,
Telemachus third; time, 2:03.
Fourth race, mile and a quarter — Bay Mil
ler won, Bally second, Sam Emery "third;
time, 2:22..
Fifth race, beaten allowances, seven fur
longs — Herbert won, King Lion second,
Richard L. third; time 1:34^.
Mysterious Murder.
Louisville, Ky., Dec. 6. — The body of
John Harrington, an Irish laborer, was dis
covered in an unoccupied store on Main
street near the river, to-day. He was lying
as he had fallen, with his knees bent as if be
bad been kneeling before he received his
death blow, with his hands clasped as if in
prayer. His hair was dabbled with blood,
which trickled in a thin stream from a small
bole in the back of his head. About the
middle of his forehead was another wound,
which had crushed in the bone. This wound,
Of itself, would have caused death. From
appearances he had been de.nd for several
hours. He bad been struck with a piece of
iron. There is no clue to the murderer.
Manager Norton's Benefit
St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 0. — benefit to
Manager John W. Norton at the Olympic
theater to-night was the most brilliant and
notable event that has occurred here in a
long time. The house was literally packed
with the best people of the city, and much
genuine sympathy was manifested for tbe
beneficiary. The performance opened with
en act in Camille by Grace Hawthorne, and
this was followed by an act from Miss
Multou by Clara Morris. Gen. Sherman, as
master of ceremonies then made an address
to Mr. Norton, to which that gentleman ap
propriately replied. Some beautiful floral
offerings were then made to Norton by the
Knights of St. Patrick and other friends.
The regular programme was then taken up
again, and Jos. Murphy Mr. Henry Gow, and
a number of vocalists and specialists, pro
longed the performance till long past mid
night. The net proceeds of the benefit were
between $7,000 and $8,000.
Will Not be Delayed.
New Orleaxs, Dec G. — The building
committee of the World's exposition made an
inspection of the grounds, buildings and
machinery to-day, with a view of deciding if
there is any reason for delay in the opening.
The committee decided that no reason exists
for delaying the opening, and that the pre
parations arc farther advanced than ever
known before in the history of large exhibi
tions. The demand for space is unpre
cedented.
Another Illinois Election Row. .
Qnxcr, 111., Dec. 6.— The Whig will to- j
morrow announce that Fred P. Taylor, the |
Democrat elected to the general assembly
from this city, is ineligible for office, because '
he has not resided in the county the requi- j
site five years preceding his election. Taylor j
was registered and voted at Burlington. lowa,
at the November election in 1880.
THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE MOXDA V MORNING. DECEMBER 81 8S4.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Attorney General Says Minneapo
lis can only Use the Amount Ap
propriated for the Postoffice
Building:.
The Last Stone of the Washington Monument
Pat In Place— lmposing Ceremonies
to Occur on Washington's
Birthday.
A Export that Got. Crittendon Wants: to
Take Judge Kreckel's Sea? id
Hit Retirement — .Mi»cel
taattu News.
WxsinsGTOX, Dec 6. — Attorney Gen
eral Brewster rendered an opinion
sustaining the position taken by
Acting Secretary of tLe Treasury Coon* last
summer, that it was illegal to approve the
plans for public buildings where the expend
iture is greater than the limit fixed by con
gress was clearly contemplated, and which
would be necessary to complete the building.
The decision applies to the proposed build
ings at Minneapolis, Leaven worth and Dodge
City.
THE LAST STONE OF THE WASHINGTON MON
IMENT.
The long expected completion of the Wash
ington monument obelisk was accomplished
this afternoon by setting in place the marble
cap stone and its pyramidal apex of alumin
ium. The ceremonies were few and
simple, an elaborate celebration event
being reserved for Washington's birthday.
Shortly ■fief I o'clock Col. Thomas L. Casey,
government engineer in charge, and his
assistants, Cast. Davis, of the United States
army, and Bernard It. Green, civil engineer,
together with Master Mechanic McLaugbliu
and several workmen standing on a plat
form built around the slopiLg marble roof
near the summit, proceeded to set the cap
stone, (weighing 1,108 pounds), which was
suspended from a quadiupon of heavy joists
supported by a platform and towering forty
feet above them. As soon as the cap stone
was set the American flag^was furled over
head and a salute <»f twenty-one guns fired
by a battery in the White house lot far be
low. A sound of cheers also came up faintly
from the crowd of spectators gathered
around.
The steady down pour of rain had given
place a little while previously to a brick gale
of wind. At this elevation it was blowing
about fifty-five miles an hour, and very few
of the invited guests cared to avail them
selves of thi* privilege of climbing nearly a
perpendicular ladder from the 500 foot plat
form to the dizzy height of 533 feet, from
which three or four journalists
and half a dozen other adventurers
climbed and witnessed the setting of
the cap stone, and subsequently
ascended to the pinnacle. Meanwhile the
Washington monument society, represented
by Dr. Joseph M. Toner, Hon. Horatio
King, Gen. Win. McKce Dunn, Dr Daniel
15. Clark and T. L. Harvey, secretary, held a
meeting on an elevated platform at the height
of 500 feet, and when the artillery firing an
nounced the setting of the capstone adopted
a resolution offered by Gcu. Dunn "congrat
ulating the American people on tin- comple
tion of this enduring monument of our na
tion's gratitude to the father of his country."
Among those present to-day at the comple
tion of the structure was one of the master
mechanics who laid the corner
stone of this monument more than
thirty-six years ago. and the old
watchman of the monument, who has been
continuously employed in that capacity dur
ing nearly the whole of the intervening
period. The flag over the monument floated
to-day from the flag stuff top, which .- ex
actly 000 feet from the ground, thus display
ing the American colors at the greatest height
of construction ever known in the world.
The monument itself, with its total height of
550 feet, far over-tops every struc
ture of human hands. The alumin
ium apex of the monument is engraved
with inscription as follows: On one face
"Chief Engineer and Architect Thomas Lin
coln Casey, Colonel of the Corps of Engi
uecrs; Assistants George W. Davis of the
Fourteenth United States Infantry; Bernard
M. Green, Civil Engineer, and Master Me
chanic P. H. McLaughlin." On another,
"Corner Stone Laid on Bod of Foundation
July 4. 184S; First Stone at thebeighth of 152
feet laid August 7, 1SS0; Cap Stone set De
cember 0, 18M." On a third, -Joint Com
mission at the setting of the Cap Stone, Ches
ter A. Arthur, W. W. Corcoran, Chairman
M. K. Bell, Edward Clark, John Newton, Act
of August 2, 1870." On the fourth the words,
D ■-.'■
nimn ueveme COLLECTIONS.
The collections of internal revenue the
first four months of the fiscal year ending
June 30, ISS4, were *35,375,G7G; the same
period of the previous fiscal year $40,999,470,
a decrease of 62,023,794. There was an in
crease of $190,373 in the collections from
fermented liquors, and ■ decrease of $2,
--551,859 on spirits, £274,912 on tobacco, and
157,390 on miscellaneous items. The ag
gresate receipts of October last were $1,590,
--075 less than the same month in 1883.
THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH BILL.
WAsnixorox, Dec. 6. — Representative
Morcv has informed the bouse committee on
postofliccs and posiroads that he has received
information from the senate which leads him
to believe that if the bouse passes a bill to
secure cheap telegraphic correspondence
the senate will accept it as a substitute for
the postal telegraph bill now pending be
fore it.
The bouse committee on education has In
structed Representative Willis to call up the
education bill as soon as possible, and move
to substitute for it the Blair bill which
passed the senate and is now on the speaker's
table. . .;.„.
■II COT. CUITTEXDEX WENT EAST.
The Star says, the visit of Gov. Critic
deu^of Missouri, to Washington, a few days
ago, and his statement that he Intends to go
to New York, were taken to mean that he
desired a cabinet position under the new
administration. Bar. Critlendcn, however,
told his friends what he wanted. United
States District Judge Kreckel, of the western
district of Missouri, will soon be seventy
years of age, and Gov. Crittt-nden wants to
succeed him on the bench In cue he retires.
As Judge Kreckel lives in Jefferson City it is
supposed by some that Gov, . Crittcnden as
certained from him be intends to avail him
self of retiring from the bench.
.LOST PAPERS.
The engrossed copy of the regular navy
appropriation bill of the last session, to
gether with the accompanying papers which
which embody the senate amendments to
the house bill, have been mislaid, and a
search of three days has not served to find
any trace of them. They were in the, bands
of the conferees when last heard from at the
end of the session. These papers were de
sired now by the senate committee on ap
propriations as a basis for the proposed ac
tion in framing a substitute for the bill
passed by the house early this week, provid
ing a lump sum for the support of the navy
during the six months of the J present fiscal
jW. A printed copy of the lost papers is
obtainable and a resolution may be passed to
consider it the official copy 'should the en
grossed papers not be found.
A Wealthy lowau Dead.
(Special Telegram to the Globe. |
Dcbuque, la., Dec. 7. — The wealthiest old
bachelor of this city is dead. A dispatch re
ceived to-day announces the demise of H.
W. Sanford at his brother's residence in
Sherburne, N. V., where he has been for
several months in falling health. Mr.
San ford was a pioneer settler of this city
coming here in IS3O, and seived as a clerk
in a store, acquired some means, purchased
lands and warrants at a sacrifice, located
tracts of land in the city and county, dealt
in real estate, built the Sanford block, and
acquired a fortune estimated In real estate
and securities at $250,000. .He traveled all
over the world, and crossed the Atlantic
ocean seven times. His age is seventy-two
years.
Henry Irvinsr in New York.
NbwYokk, Dec. 6. — Henry Irving closed
his second engagement in New York by the
presentation of the same play in which he
made his first appearance before an Ameri
can audience, 'The Bells." Being called be
fore the curtain. Mr. Irving. Id simplest
I word* spoke bis acknowledgement of the
kindness shown him. He spoke of "a dear
friend of mine" ( Ellen Terry 1. and concluded:
! "Ladies and gentlemen, we shall once again
have the pleasure and privilege of appearing
before you, if all is well, nexi March, and
then as actors we most take a k>ng and last
farewell. On that I will not dwell — sufficient
for tbc day is the pain thereof — but will look
forward to oar next meeting, assuring you
that my rollegnes are sensible, as I am, of
the courtesy, hospitality, welcome and good
will which we have received at you bands.
The remembrance of which wfflrh will ever
bring great happiness to oar hearts. Respect
fully and jrratefally I thank you and say
good-bye — not good bye but au rn/oir.
HEAVYSTORM.
Terrific Wind and Rain Storm in the
East— Much Damage Done.
Pitt* biro, Dec. 6. — A terrific wind and
rain storm passed over western Pennsyl
vania at 6 o'clock this evening.and although
it ia*U.-d but a few minutes great damage to
j property was done . In this city the telfc
! graph wires, swinging signs, chimneys, etc.,
! suffered severely. One sign four feet wide
I and covering the entire length of a business
' block on Seventh avenue was carried away,
falling on a woman named Pfaff and her two
children, Willie, aged six, and Gertie,
three years old, who accompanied
her. The hoy was killed instantly, and the
! mother and little girl seriously, " but it is
, thought not fatally injured. " There were
i rumors of accidents in other parts of this
city and Allegheny, but nothing definite is
yet received . At (ire-nsburg, West More
land county, toe roof of the court bouse was
carried iff, but no one injured. No reports
of damage is received flroni other to As.
The wires are down in all directions and
■pb companies are experiencing great
difficulty in handling busit:
Y..KK, Dec. 6 — Pedestrians out last
! evening realized that one of the severest
- of the season was raging over the
CB4 those whom kind fortune kept m
• ould congratulate themselves with the
reason. It began to rain about 2o'clock,and
continued steadily during the afternoon and
evening. At 8 the wind increased in velo
city and was blowing a eale over the house
tops, while it scurried through the streets in
that rattled against the windows anl
buildings with great lorcc. The streets were
I aud the payments fairly scoured.
:Tect of the storm in this city was
marked. The streets became deserted after
I a. m.. and even the Bowery, which is gen
erally thronged all night Saturdays, was as
dreary as a side street while electric lights
and illuminated signs called bat few iktn
within the il.K.rs over which they shed their
glare. The theatres suffered fn>m the storm,
and the usual large Saturday night audiences
were wanting. The Time* notes the trouble
with telegraph wires, and adds that all prin
reacbed, however, IhßMajl
rouuduU.ut roiiu-s, from northern <•'■
Little trouble is reported from wires near this
city. Ihe low lands about town are sub
merged, and many cellars along the river
streets flooded.
OLD yVORLLTNEWS,
THE IMTtU KINGDOM.
London, Dec. 6 — The Liberal associations
and electoral agents stiil continue to protest
against the division of boroughs Into sections
uu.ler the new redistribution bill. The
managers of the London association of
omen's clubs protest against sectional
-1 ntation. They say it will destroy cau
cus organization, and split the popular vote.
Chamberlain advices the Liberals of Glasgow
to make municipal contests political and so
prepare the way fora parliamentary contest
The Conservative papers are devoting much
attention to the revolt of the Radicals against
the single seat principle. The Pmrnellites
calculate they will be able to
return eighty-five members to the house
as soon as the bill goes Into effect. The
ChUal Jrriand declares the bill will produce a
momentous change In the British con
stitution that has ever been proposed in Par
liament and says it will lead to tbc final
triumph of the Nationalist cause.
A cuinmittte of the commons, which has
charge of the bill for the rt lief of Irish la
borers, advocates granting laborers cheap
leases in nerpetnity at rents to be settled by
the laud commissions, The committee also
is in favor of fixing a low rate of interest on
1 aaa.
London*, Dec. 6. — The Tim** this morning
in commenting upon the (iermau white book
says; "The annexation of territory l>.
many in west Africa was planned in the
spring of ISS4 .nd was completed. It mu.-t
be admitted that the first stage of Prince
Bismarck's colonial policy has been marked
by a promptness, thoroughness, resolution
and vigor, unsurpassed at any period of his
career.
I.ummix, Dec. 6. — Advices from Masso
wah state the women and children of San
heite have arrived in safety at Massowah.
The male population alone remain at San
licjte. To the latter pl.tce money has been
been conveyed for payment of the troop*.
Lonik)n, Dec. 6. — Premier Upington, of
Cape Colony, who made a speech the other
day at Capetown, in praise of the Pechuana
boers and in denunciation of the policy of
the government. Sir Hercules Ivobinson is
an Irish barrister from Cork. Dublin papers
congratulate him on the position he has
taken.
1); m.in, Dec. 6. — The court refused to
grant a new trial of the action for libel
brought by Secy. Cornwall, of the postottfce,
against O'Brien, the editor of Uuite.l Inland.
LondoN, Dec. 6. — In the house of com
mons to-day the speaker announced royal
assent bad been given to the franchise bill.
IMIK, Dec. 6. — Advices from the west
coast of Africa state two Mohammedan slave
catching tribes attacked the king of Fobaba
in his capital. The king's household and of
ficers were blown up with gun powder.
GERMANY.
Berlix, Dec. It — The white book was pre
sented to the Reichstag yesterday, which
gives an account of the foreign affairs of the
empire. Such a book is unique in the his
tory of Germany. It consists of fifty-five
closely printed folio pages, and is taken up
principally with the affairs of Germany on
the west coast of Africa. It gives fall de
tails of the African coast, among which is
tbc vain protests of E. H. Hewitt, British
consul at old Calibar.
The Stafford Dynamite Explosion.
Dover, N. H., Dec. 6. — George Young,
who. it is said, caused the disaster at Stafford,
says he was not fooling with the battery. The
men excavating the well brought the cart
ridge to him to show them how to work It
He took it in his hands, and does not re
member any explosion or concu«slon . He
remembers floating in the air for a short
time and being picked up nearly stark
naked, and being told his conditi >n was the
result of an explosion of the battery cartridge
and forty-nine others in the basket in the
kitchen.
Suit* Against Mapleson.
New York, Dec. 6. — Ida Reicette, a mem
ber of Maplcson's opera troupe, brought suit
against him and obtained an attachment
against his property to the amount of 11,600
due for salary. To-day argument was heard
in the supreme court in the case of the Bank
of the Metropolis vs. Mapleson for $1,500
which the bank claims Mapleson won't pay.
A Ferocious Priie Fijrht.
PiTTSBruo, Dec. 1 . — Nicholas Foley and
John Miltzug, local pugilists, indulged in a
ferocious prize fight near McKec's Rock last
evening. Both men were so badly punished
that at Ihe end of the fourth round the battle
was declared a draw.
Bay view Mills Shut Down.
Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 6. — The merchant
mills at Bayview were shut down to-night in
consequence of overproduction and want of
orders. The entire rolling mill property at
Bayview is now idle, and will so remain
until business will warrant a resumption.
Fourteen hundred meu are made idle by the
shut down.
A TALE OF HORROR.
A Trip Thronsrh the Plague Stricken
Districts ot Kentucky and
Virginia.
Whole Famillm Income Victims of the Terri
ble Sconrge, and in Some Instan
ces Entire Neighborhoods.
The Kec-at lUlnn »nd Frosts Hay Some
what Stopper! the Malady, but there
la Still Great Suffering. • . •■ . ■
LocisrnxE, Dec. 6.— The Cornier Journal
staff correspondent sends bis paper the re
salt of his toar through the plague stricken
district, in. a special from ML Pleasant,
Harlan county. Ky., to-nigbL He says:
No one who ha* not personalty visited this
country can form anything near an idea of
the woe that wraps like a winding sheet and
casts a pail of • desolation and sorrow
everywhere. Almost every bouse . in
many sections has contributed -«-It»
one or more victims to the hundreds who
help to fill the grave yards, and mourning is
as widespread is the everlasting hills which
have been devastated. I left ML Pleasant
three days ago and have traveled into the
northern part of that county along Clover
Fork and little streams emptying into it, and
then went along to Poor Fork along wbos*
banks in Ilarlan and Letcber counties
scores have yielded up their lives
to the awful scourge. From Poor Fork
I crossed culverts and mountains into Wise
and Lee counties, Virginia, finding in the
former such a tale of horror that my heart
falls when I begin to write. Individual in
j stances of the most heartrending nature are
as numerous as the mouutalns, and to men
tion them one by one would keep me em
ployed for a day.
At one place, in Harlan county,
I learned of an instance where five
out of a family of seven, the Clark
living on Poor Fork, euccuml>ed
to the scourge. In another, where the only
living member of a family of five was a babe
not yet able to prattle. In another, where a
father and three children had left a bereaved
wife and mother to mourn her sorrow alone
at the cheerless hearth: and still another
where not one of a household of four re
mained to perpetuate the name on Poor
Fork. At Letcher, just beyond Harlan, lie a
cemetery in which thirty-seven new made
mounds of rock and earth covered all that
was mortal of the plague's victims
in one little neighborhood not five miles
square. In that section almost whole
families were swept away like chaff before a
wind, and in many more death had taken a
majority. The deaths In Lctcher have been
far above the average of those in any other
county save Wise county, Virginia, in which
the disease had ma<le a wider swath than
in any . I have visited. The
number, as nearly as the best
authorities could estimate, is 200, and the
number of cases have exceeded that fully
three-fold. It was not until I crossed into
Virginia that the most pitiful stories reached
my ears. Here it was told that near the lit
tle town of Emdoden, in a grave yard con
taining sixty-three new graves, twenty-nine
persons out of the Baker family had died and
w«-re occupants of that many burial places in
the rude cemetery. I was told that one day
thirty-three persons had died, and that there
was not grave clothes and cothns enough in
the neighborhood to bury them. Physicians
who practice in the county, but two in num
ber, are totally unable to cope with the di
sease, and the dead have multiplied faster
than they could be buried. Their treatment
of It has been of the crudest sort,
from what I can learn, and
as a result has been little more than
experimental, confessing that the plague ha*
baffled all the medical skill they DOM
In Wise the deaths exceed 400, cverv
grave yard, almost every hill side, contains
rude heaps which mark the last resting place
of the dead. In this county, as in Letchf r,thc
number of those attacked has been enormous,
in many instances there not being
enough well people to care for
the sick. The exact number
of tho6R who have been ill I could not learn,
but Mr. Jacob Oakley, with whom I talked,
said nearly half the population had been at
tacked. in Lee county I met Dr. W. C.
Minter, at the post office at Crab Orchard,
near the Kentucky line. He has been in the
infected section but about three weeks,
having left his practice in the southern por
tion of Lee to answer a pitiful cry for aid
which came from the northern portion of
the county. Since bis arrival he has treated
scores of patients and saved every one. He
has the appearance of an intelligent man and
gave his opinion that with proper treatment
aud nursing the mortality could have been
reduced seventy-five per cent, in Lee
county, as, in fact in all dis
tricts in which I have pursued
my Investigation, the disease is now
decreasing, both in the number attacked and
fatality, and while fresh cases appear singly
and in twos and threes daily, they are lack
ing the malignant features which marked the
epidemic before the recent rains and frosts.
The deaths in Lee have reached about 100
since the infection * first made its appear
ance.
In the counties which I have,
visited all sources of information
medical and otherwise, agree that impure
water is attributed to this moat terrible
plague. In several places I have examined
the water, and although It has been to a
great extent purified by the rains and frost,
I have been able to detect a brackish, bitter
taste so often described. The water not only
tastes bad but looks bad, and that which
the people hay« been using
for drinking purposes for weeks would turn
the strongest stomach and cause the health
iest man to fall ill. Mineral or vegetable
poison, which ever it is. In some substances
so strongly impregnated the streams that it
could be discovered both by sight and taste,
a slight disturbance at the bottom bringing
to the top a moss or sediment of a bright yel
lowish color, bitter as nut gall. I found in
stances where people whose springs
bad given out they had dug
boles two or three feet deep in
the ground and used the slimy, pest breeding
water which oozed up. The stuff being so
Impure it seems impossible they should not
have known of it
A case of almost criminal foolishness is
related to me. A man, whose well had given
out hauled water a long distance and
dumped it into a well, stirring up the filth
which for years had been accumulating
at the bottom. Of this - water the entire
family used, and as a consequence flux at
tacked every member, one or two dying.
Having traveled through many counties
and made every effort to secure the most
reliable information, I think the following
estimate of the number of deaths as correct
as any can be secured, and certainly nearer
the truth than any figures given from out
side sources:
Whlteley county... 80 Wise county, Va...400
Knox county 50 Lee county, Va....100
Bell county 50
Harlan 100 Total 910
Letcher 200
This estimate, it will be seen, does not in
clude Buchanan county. Va.. in which the
mortality is placed at over 125
Scott county. Va... 25 Leslie 85
Dickinson county. .lso Knott 50
Pike county. Ky... 100 Scott, Bell, Menifee
Floyd: 75 and Wolf Cos., Ky.400
! which brines the grand total up to 2,045.
A startling figure, truly, and it cannot but
strike a sympathetic cord in the breast of
every one who reads this. My figures for the
counties which I have not visited are based
on statements of men whose reliability is
not questioned, therefore I have no fears
over the estimated ravages of the most de
structive demon.
After leaving West Virginia and while en
| route to ML Pleasant on mv return
trip, I met. Dr. J. O. , Carson, of
Bowling Green,., who bad been sent
out by the state ' board of health to
i investigate the disease and its causes. I me-
I him afterward at ML Pleasant and he in.
; formed me he had visited . several houses
; where there were people sick, and he had
j formed an opinion that the malady
I was 'not • contagious, though it
! was not - certain under certain
1 circumstances it had not been communicated
j from one to the other. He referred to the
• conditions described in a previous letter, and
! he attributed the sickness to malaria as well
;as Impure water, and was not satisfied as to
'■ whether vegetable or mineral poison caused
' the Utter to become so baleful. Dr. Carson
• procured vials of the water of several
I streams where the plague has raged, but
the heavy rains which fell » day or two be
fore his arrival, coupled with the severe
frosts, has no doubt so purified it that it
will not be of much use in bis investigation.
Dr. Canon, like every doctor I met. had a
theory, and he informed me that both
Drs. Miuter, of Lee county, Va.,
and Blair, of ML " Pleasant,
agreed with him in the more material points.
' His researches will probably be of more
value than any off hand opinions and doubt
less result in the discovery of the real cause
of the epedemlc and of a cure, should it re
cur
More Gold Discovered in Minnesota.
(Special Telegram to the Globe. I
Dclcth, Minn.. Dec. 6. — For more than
six months mining excitemant of grea'er or
less degree has existed in Dulutb and other
places in regard to gold and silver on the
north shore of Lake Superior, between
Duluth and Pigeon river. Just now the ex
citement 13 at fever beat and intensifying.
Id the past few months explorers have been
traveling all over the region, exploring for
precious metals, and up to date over 32,000
acres of public land has been bought. The
heaviest buyers have been Emery Bros., of
Bay City, Mich., and other Michigan parties.
Emery Bros, have over 14,000 acres. The
greatest interest is in the extreme northern
portion of Lake county, adjoining the Can
adian border. The largest and most prom
ising deposits of gold have been
found there. It is said that G. Stev
ens, of Michigan, and Geo. F. Ash,
of the city, went to town G4, range 39, section
24, and found considerable pyrites of gold
and copper. This led the* to suspect the
presence of gold and silver, and after further
search they came to rock which certainly
contained gold. Samples wore brought back
and sent to an amayei of East Tawas, Mich.
The first Specimen essayed $735 to the ton,
the second the extraordinary figure of $2,940.
Now no day passes without new entries of
land in the region. The country is rough,
rocky and broken up by innumerable small
lakes, and extends through several town
ships. The new discoveries an? ou a line
with Rabbit Mountain, from which large
quantities of silver ore have been taken.
Sufficient is known to show that gold exists,
and probably in paving quantities. Samples
taken to Ann Arbor, Michigan, assayed from
11,468 to $1,506.42 a ton, and others seat to
St. Paul assayed from $400 to $000 a ton. A
Ct*ur D'Alene excitement is predicted by
many.
Death of Col- Smallwood.
New Orleans, Dec. G.— Co!. Walter
Smallwood, secretary and superintendent of
the produce exchange, commercial editor of
the I'itayuM, and a member of the board of
health and sanitary association, died this af
ternoon, aged fifty-nine. lie was colonel in
the federal army during the war, and after
wards appointed postmaster at New Orleans
by President Johnson.
Dividends Declared.
New York. Dec. G. -The Post In a finan
cial article, says : It is reported from Lon
don this morning on what appears good
authority that the New York Central has de
clared a one and one-half per cent dvidend,
and that the same will be announced here
Monday. The rumors about one per cent.
dividends on the Lake Shore current this
morning are of course entirely premature.
There seems to be some ground for belief
that the Erie will be able to borrow the
amount required, though the rumor this
morning that it had already done so is un
warranted.
Murdered His Mother.
Hamilton, 0., Dec. ♦'».— C. H. Turner was
lodged in jail here shortly after mlduigbt on
the charge of having murdered his mother.
She held a mortgage en his property, and
and yesterday he paid her $100. His story
is that they started for Hamilton and on the
way were tin by two Masked rubbers, who
demanded her money. Upon her refusal{they
killed her and made him promise under
penalty of death to say nothing about it. He
baid they burned the body. It was disin
tered and found to be in night clothes. The
supposition is he killed her in his own house.
Wanted, $10,000,000 More Capital.
Boston, Dec. G. — The directors of the
American Bell Telephone company have
voted to petition the legislature for authority
to Increase the capital from ten to twenty
millions. Street gossip Is that in event ol
the authority being granted the new stock
will be msued at the rate of one million per
annum, at par. The company expects to
have wires between Boston anil New York
opened to lease. July, 1885. *
The Plenary Council.
Baltimore, Dec. 6. — The eloslng of the
secret session of the plenary council occurred
to day. The principal business was the com
pletion of the pastoral letter, which will be
read in all churches of the United States two
weeks hence. To-morrow the last solemn
public session will be held. The weather
permitting there will be a procession, but the
weather to-night is unpromisiug. High
mass will be celebrated at the cathedral by
Bishop Corrigan. Bishop Riordan, of San
Francisco, will preach on "Perpetuity of the
Church."
CHAPTER I.
"I was taken sick a year ago
With bilious fever."
"My doctor pronounced me cured, but I
got sick again, with terrible pains in my
backhand Sides, and I got so bad I
Could not move!
I shrunk!
From 238 lbs. to 120! I had been doctor-
Ing for my liver, but it did me no good. I
did not expect to live more than three
months. I began to use Bop Bitters. Di
rectly my appetite returned, my pains left
me, my entire system seemed renewed as if
by magic, and after using several bottles, I
am not only as sound as a sovereign, but
weigh more than I did before. To Hop
Bitters I owe my life." R. Fitzpatrick.
Dublin, June tf, '81.
CHAPTER 11.
'Maiden, Mass., Feb. l, iB6O. Gentlemen—
offered with attacks of sick headache."
Neuralgia, female trouble, for years In the
most terrible and excruciating manner.
No medicine or doctor could give me re
lief or cure, until I used Hop Bitters.
"The first bottle
Nearly cured me;"
The second made me as well and strong
as when a child,
"And I have been so to this day."
My husband vras an invalid for twenty
years with a serious .
"Kidney, liver and urinary complaint,
"Pronounced by Boston's best physicians —
"Incurable!"
Seven bottles of your Bitters cured him
and I know of the
"Lives of eieht persons"
In my neighborhood that have been saved
by your bitters,
And many more are using them with great
benefit.
"They almost
Do miracles?" — .Vr». E. D. Slack.
How to Get Sick. — Expose yourself flay and
night; eat too much without exercise; work too
hard without rest; doctor all the time; take all
the Tile nostrums advertised, and then you will
want to know how to get veil, which is answer- I
ed in three words— Take Hop Bitters.
t^"Xone genuine without a bunch of green
Bops on the white label. Shan all the vile, poi
tonoas, stall with "Hop" or "Hops" in their
name.
Placarded He niton*.
We sometimes see at the doorstep of some
bouse the word "Welcome" imbedded In the
| rock or on a foot-mat. It is pleasant to be
| so cordially and promptly invited within, but
- we must divide this gushing hospitality with
the merest wayfarer, the peddler and the
I Jramp. If it were thrown down just once,
and for us only, what a different train of
thought it would suggest. . But a hospitality
i so broad overleaps itself and loses its subtle
. and most cherished frcgrance^for the truth
is, neither love, friendship nor religion can
, be profitted by tricks, or by rude publicity.
| Their graces and benedictions, their ben is
ons and benefits come with silence and se-
I crecy. — [New York Hour.
A SHORT EXTRA SESSION.
Most Democrats Favorable to Bat _.
Brief Senate Session After
the Inauguration.
I Special Telecram to the Globed
WasniKCTO.v, Dec. 7.— Many of the Dem
ocratic leaders are becoming convinced that
it will be unwise to have a protracted extra
session of the senate early in March follow
ing the Inauguration of President Cleveland,
but that the session should last only long
enough to confirm the new " cab
inet and a few of the leading
officers of the government. This point has
been quite freely discussed, and it is evident
that the leaders fear that a prolonged ex
ecutive session of the senate would lead to
great pressure upon Mr. Cleveland to
begin then and there the work of decapita
tion. This they think it is desirable to avoid
until the country has become familiar with a
change in the administration and better pre
pared for the removals from office which will
follow. It is the opinion of Democrat-* who
are inclined to be conservative that the
changes which will be made soon
after Mr. Cleveland's inauguration will
be few in number and that he
witl prefer to wait until after the senate has
adjourned, and make the changes then.
To do this, except in the case of officer.
whose commissions will have expired, the
suspension clause Of the tenure of office act
will have to be resorted to. Several well
known Democrats, who expect to receiv«
good appointments under the new adminis
tration are satisfied that tiny will have to
wait for two or three months after Mr.
Cleveland's terra of office begins before
many changes will be made.
Republican senators who have been seek
lag light are convinced that removals will be
made more rapidly in the southern than in
the northern states and that President Cleve
land will be very slow in removing compet
ent officials in the northern states' merely
for political purposes. They do not
believe the same consideration will
be shown to southern* officials,
It is no secret now that the Republican Nil
tional coma] several weeks before the
election entertained strong hopes of Carrying
Tennessee for Blame, and were so well satis
fied with the outlook iv that state that th.-y
opened a branch headquarters at Nashville,
and sent 996,000 to be expended there un
der the direction of an experienced
.md trusted agent.^ In doing this the
committee acted against the advice of the
Republicans with more knowledge regarding
the management of a campaign than was
possessed by the gentlemen who were run
ning the committee. In speaking about the
campaign in that state Senator Jackson says
that iii.. party were badly frightened, and
afraid it would go Republican, until Mr.
Blame made hi. Fort Wayne speech, it
which he assailed the solid south.
'•That speech," .-aid Mr. Jackson, "drove
off voter- who had determined to desert an.!
vote for Blame. They were southern men
who were led to believe that Mr. Blame was
not hostile to the south and would forget past
animosities, and for this reason bad deter
mined to vote for him. The Fort Wayne
speech caused them to change their minds,
and thousands who, but for that speech,
would have voted for Mr. Blame went to the
polls and voted for Cleveland. After
that speech the Democratic committee
considered Tennessee safe forthe Democratic
ticket.
Secretary McCulloch Is inclined to look at
the soft-Chinese bill with a more liberal eye
than his predecessor, the lute .Secretary Fol
ger, and to this end n.-w regulations regard
ing the admission of Chinese who may come
rom countries other than China or who may
arrive at ports of this coun
try enroute to other countries are being
prepared at fhe department and will be pro
mulgated next week. It Is now believed at
the treasury department that the decision of
Justice Field construing the nuti-Chinose
law will be affirmed by the supreme court
when the appeal from the circuit court of
Calafornia '..- decided.
Representative Davis said to the _1..0»a
-.on. lent to-day while talking about the
senatorial question in Illinois: "I think
lien. Logan _____ be elected even with the
legislature ii tie. There i- no disposition to
flght him now among the Republicans whom
be has opposed and fought in the past.
There is a feeling of sympathy for
him in consequence of his
defeat for the vice presidency which over
shadows any personal objections growing
out of bis treatment of us In the past. But
if he wants to succeed he must retire from
public and party gaze, some of his strikers
and the set called his friends who have done
nothing but stir up strife in our own ranks.
We have no di.-po-itian to fight him now,
but will contribute what we can to return
him to the seuate."
Kayraer, Seng-rave & Cos. Fail
Toledo*, <). Dec. o.— Raymer, Seagrave &
* o's. failure is still the topic of much discus
sion, and many conflicting rumors in cir
culation. The firm is preparing a detailed
statement of the assets end liabilities, which
will not be ready for several days. The
firms claims not to have guaranteed the loans
made by them, but has come into possession
of large blocks of real estate, which now
rates much lower than its real value, so that,
while ample security when the obligation
was made, is now unsullicient if forced on
the market. The opinion is expressed that
if matters can be so arranged a- to avoid
forced sales the assets will be ample to cover
ail liabilities. Tie-, controlled the principal
lines of street railway, and a large cotton
mill at South Toledo.
The Pennsylvania to Pay a Rental;
Pirrsßum', Dec. G. — Arrangements were
made to-day whereby the Pennsylvania com
pany will pay an annual rental to the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad com
pany, pending settlement of the proceedings
to compel the latter company to issue special
guaranteed stock. The Pennsylvania com
pany's action is not regarded as waiving any
of their rights to restrain the Fort Wayne
company from taking possession of the road
by reason of nonpayment of rents, but for
the purpose of not interfering with the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne __ Chicago declaring an
annual dividend by withholding its only
source of revenue
The Strikingl Hatters.
South No__.va_.__, Ct.. Dec. G. — With the
striking hatters the situation to-day is un
changed. The leaders disclaim the men are
bent on any breach of peace and will partic
ipate in none if it is possible to avoid. Al
though they seem disposed to prevent if pos
sible any hands from outside towns taking
their places. Sheriff Schwartz expresses him
self confident of maintaining order without
the necessity of calling in the troops, as has
been reported will be done. Gen. Smith, of
tie- National guards, and Col. Watson, of the
Fourth regiment, have no appre
hension that the militia will be called out,
and fear no trouble that will necessitate
such action. It is reported that Gen. Waller
will visit the scene of the disturbance. Dur
ing the day, streets were full of idle men, and
crowds of them are watching the trains for
outside workmen, but as a general thing the
men are quiet and orderly up to this writing.
Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 6. — The execu
tive committee of the Hatters' union at
Norwalk declared tiiis afternoon the strikers
had no other object in view than that of pro
tecting their rights. It now turns out the
call for troopa last night was made in the
heat of excitement and without warrant. '
The Mas. ill Jury Out.
'Special Telegram to the Globe. |
Bismarck, D. T., Dec. G — Arguments in
the Magill murder case were completed to
day. The judge's charge was considered*
very fair. The pleas by District Attorney
Flannery for the prosecution and J. W.
Green for defendant were very eloquent and
forcible. The jury retired at . o'clock in the
afternoon. The general belief is that the
jury will disagree. _